How much does an Olympic Bar weight?
I've heard anything from 30-45 pounds from folks at the gym. So what is it?
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The bottom line is this: A TRUE Olympic bar weighs 44lbs/20kg. But there are hundreds of other bars that have different weights.
I have:
6' bar-10lbs
7' One inch bar-20lbs
Oly Bar-44lbs (or 45, as we round up here)
EZ-curl bar-5lbs
Ez-Curl bar-10lbs
Tricep/HG bar-5#
Adj. DBs-3.5lbs
Smith machine bar with Oly ends- 20#
And that's just mine. There hundresd of variations, but again, a TRUE Oly bar is always going to be 44lbs/20kg."If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
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06-03-2010, 02:00 AM #28
C man, when you said
There's no regulation weight. You have to weigh the bar yourself, that's the only way you'll know.
you means that coud happen with standard oly bars too, right?
but yeah, really i think most of the gyms owners or lifters don't check their bars weight. Most will just assume they are as stated.
and i agree with someone who wrote:" an olympic bar it's a standard 7 foot bar, so it weighs 45 pounds and can handl up to 1500 pounds (i think a more accurate weght is 43 pounds, but using 45 makes the math easier on us muscle-heads)." what do you think about?Last edited by alfamen; 06-04-2010 at 08:04 AM.
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My gym got new bars that feel thicker and heavier but are more solid. I hope they are the real 45lb ones and not 55lbs. The old ones felt lighter
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